Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yang learned that Eastern Emperor Hall had ordered Liao Chen to challenge him before his final against Dong Sheng Yi, hoping to wear him down. He accepted the match and demanded that Liao Chen use his full strength, and Liao Chen unleashed the Great Sun Tathagata's image and struck at him.

• Liao Chen told Xiao Yang that Eastern Emperor Hall had ordered him to fight Xiao Yang because Ten Thousand Buddha Temple owed it a debt of gratitude.
• Xiao Yang condemned Eastern Emperor Hall's attempt to weaken him before the final, while Liao Chen apologized and promised to stop once either gained the upper hand.
• Xiao Yang accepted the match and insisted that Liao Chen use his full strength.
• Liao Chen unleashed the Great Sun Tathagata Sutra, summoned the Ancient Buddha's image, and pressed its palm down toward Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang countered Liao Chen’s Great Sun Tathagata Sutra with his own, revealing a domineering Purple-Gold Buddha Light and a Chaos Buddha-Demon Aspect. He declared that those who followed him were Buddhas and those who defied him were demons, leaving Liao Chen stunned.

• Liao Chen attacked Xiao Yang with the Great Sun Tathagata Sutra, summoning a vast Ancient Buddha and a golden palm.
• Xiao Yang recognized the scripture and told Liao Chen that he had been reciting it wrong.
• Liao Chen grew angry and strengthened his palm strike, while Xiao Yang revealed that he knew the same scripture.
• Xiao Yang unleashed Purple-Gold Buddha Light and formed a Chaos Buddha-Demon Aspect wielding a divine spear.
• Xiao Yang told the stunned Liao Chen that Buddha was law and that those who defied his teachings deserved to die.

Xiao Yang overwhelmed Liao Chen’s Buddha Kingdom with his Chaos Buddha Demon and divine spear, revealing the vast difference between their versions of the Great Sun Tathagata Sutra. As Liao Chen sacrificed his Dharma image for a forbidden attack, Xiao Yang prepared to counter with “One Thought Blooms, Rule the World.”

• Xiao Yang’s divine spear pierced Liao Chen’s golden palm and began destroying the Buddha Kingdom within it.
• Xiao Yang declared that Liao Chen’s Buddha Kingdom was too small and said that a true Buddha made all beings obey his edicts.
• Xiao Yang trapped Liao Chen in his domain and drove his spear toward Liao Chen’s Ancient Buddha Dharma image.
• Liao Chen sacrificed his Dharma image and unleashed tens of thousands of Buddhist seals in a forbidden attack.
• Xiao Yang’s Chaos Buddha Demon smiled and pointed forward, invoking “One Thought Blooms, Rule the World!”

Xiao Yang overwhelmed Liao Chen with the Chaos Buddha Demon’s Monarch’s Will and forced him to kneel, shattering his Buddhist faith and defeating him. Xiao Yang left Liao Chen broken on the ground and asked whether he finally understood that his Buddha could not even save him.

• Xiao Yang’s World-Ending Black Lotus made Liao Chen’s Buddhist seals bow to him, causing Liao Chen to spit blood and lose heart.
• Xiao Yang invoked “Rule the World” and commanded anyone who saw him to kneel.
• Liao Chen resisted Xiao Yang’s will, but his kneecaps broke and he fell to his knees.
• Liao Chen’s Buddhist heart and Ancient Buddha Dharma Idol shattered, and he collapsed to the ground defeated.
• Xiao Yang withdrew his aura, approached Liao Chen, and asked if he understood that his Buddha could not save him.

After Xiao Yang shattered Liao Chen’s Buddha heart, Liao Chen gained new insight and warned him that Dong Sheng Yi possessed a hidden trump card. Xiao Yang recovered overnight before the crowd gathered at the Heavenly Dao Tower for his final showdown with Dong Sheng Yi.

• Liao Chen thanked Xiao Yang for breaking his attachments and said he had begun to understand what a true Buddha was.
• Liao Chen warned Xiao Yang that Eastern Emperor Hall had paid a great price to cultivate Dong Sheng Yi, who still possessed a terrifying secret trump card.
• Xiao Yang dismissed the warning, then meditated to recover his energy and Divine Soul power before the decisive battle.
• The next morning, cultivators poured into the Heavenly Dao Tower to watch Xiao Yang face Dong Sheng Yi in the Heavenly Dao Grand Competition’s final battle.
• Xiao Yang arrived before the packed crowd, where many spectators debated whether his strength could overcome Dong Sheng Yi’s Holy Lord Realm cultivation and powerful backing.

Xiao Yang and Dong Sheng Yi faced off before entering the Heavenly Dao Tower’s final battle, but the fight was interrupted when the Eastern Emperor Great Emperor’s decree descended. The crowd realized the Great Emperor was watching the competition, and the final battle had yet to begin.

• Xiao Yang noticed that Liao Chen had recovered from his previous setback and seemed to have found his Buddhist Dao.
• Dong Sheng Yi approached Xiao Yang, and their auras clashed as they traded taunts.
• The Heavenly Dao Tower announced the final battle, and Xiao Yang and Dong Sheng Yi entered the arena.
• The tower began shaking as overwhelming imperial might descended, making even the Holy Lord elders’ Divine Souls tremble.
• A golden decree appeared from a rift above the tower, and the crowd recognized it as the Eastern Emperor Great Emperor’s decree.

Eastern Emperor Great Emperor announced that the victor of the final battle would enter the Supreme Dao Field for one month, and Dong Sheng Yi assumed the reward was his. Xiao Yang’s fierce excitement and killing intent revealed that the prize had stirred something in him.

• Dong Sheng Yi bowed to Eastern Emperor Great Emperor’s golden edict and taunted Xiao Yang, while Xiao Yang remained unmoved.
• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor announced that the final victor would enter the Supreme Dao Field and comprehend the Dao there for one month.
• Dong Sheng Yi celebrated the reward, thanked his master, and declared that Xiao Yang would be his sacrifice on the way to claiming it.
• Dong Sheng Yi mocked Xiao Yang for supposedly envying the prize, but Xiao Yang erupted with killing intent and quietly said, “So... it’s here!”

Xiao Yang recognized the Supreme Dao Field as his father’s former sect and learned that Dong Sheng Yi’s master, the Eastern Emperor Great Emperor, had stolen it. As the final battle began, Dong Sheng Yi unleashed a hundred Holy Lord-level incarnations against Xiao Yang.

• Xiao Yang recalled that the Supreme Dao Field had been his father Xiao Wuji’s sect and that the Eastern Emperor Great Emperor had betrayed it.
• Xiao Yang told Dong Sheng Yi that his master’s reward was a lie and declared that Dong Sheng Yi had been defeated by the Supreme Dao Field.
• The Heavenly Dao Tower announced the final battle, and Dong Sheng Yi attacked Xiao Yang in a rage.
• Dong Sheng Yi used Myriad Daos Return to One, External Incarnations, filling the arena with a hundred Holy Lord-level versions of himself.
• The spectators, including Buddha's Son Liao Chen, were shocked by Dong Sheng Yi’s trump card and expected Xiao Yang to lose.

Xiao Yang faced a hundred Dong Sheng Yis, who attacked him together, but he summoned Anlan's Spear and effortlessly broke their combined assault. The clones were left wounded and terrified as Xiao Yang prepared to strike again.

• A hundred Dong Sheng Yis surrounded Xiao Yang and demanded that he kneel, beg forgiveness, and cripple his cultivation.
• Xiao Yang mocked the Dong Sheng Yis, and they unleashed a combined attack from every direction.
• Anlan's Spear descended, and Xiao Yang grasped it and poured his Chaos God-Demon Qi into the weapon.
• Xiao Yang swept Anlan's Spear through the attack, destroying the torrent and injuring all hundred Dong Sheng Yis.
• The Dong Sheng Yis cried out in disbelief, and Xiao Yang called them counterfeits.

Xiao Yang used Anlan's Spear and Kunpeng Extreme Speed to destroy all ninety-nine of Dong Sheng Yi's Holy Lord-level avatars, leaving Dong Sheng Yi badly injured and alone. As Xiao Yang moved to finish him, Dong Sheng Yi vowed to reveal the true power of a Holy Lord and the Three Thousand Great Daos.

• Xiao Yang rushed at Dong Sheng Yi's avatars and killed the first with a single thrust that shattered his divine shield.
• Xiao Yang swiftly hunted down and destroyed the remaining avatars while dodging their attacks.
• Xiao Yang left Dong Sheng Yi alone on the arena, and the backlash from losing his avatars severely injured him.
• Dong Sheng Yi asked why Anlan's Spear could overcome the difference in laws, but Xiao Yang refused to explain and thrust toward his heart.
• Dong Sheng Yi roared that Xiao Yang was naive and promised to show him the true might of a Holy Lord and the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Dong Sheng Yi unleashed the Great Devouring Art and Great Chaos Art together, trapping Xiao Yang in a domain that devoured matter and laws. Xiao Yang endured the domain with his Chaos God-Demon Body and began revealing the Great Five Elements Technique.

• Dong Sheng Yi fused the Great Devouring Art with the Great Chaos Art, creating a domain that collapsed space and annihilated laws.
• The spectators believed Xiao Yang was doomed as Dong Sheng Yi’s Devouring Chaos Domain swallowed him.
• Xiao Yang remained unharmed inside the domain because his Chaos God-Demon Body resisted its devouring and disintegration.
• Xiao Yang criticized Dong Sheng Yi’s shallow understanding of the Great Dao and summoned the five fundamental forces of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
• Xiao Yang announced the Great Five Elements Technique as his divine power surged.

Xiao Yang used the Great Five Elements Technique to withstand Dong Sheng Yi’s Devouring Chaos Domain, but Dong Sheng Yi burned his blood essence and nearly shattered the Five-Colored Divine Ring. As the ring began to fail, Xiao Yang summoned the Great Star Technique.

• Xiao Yang formed a Five-Colored Divine Ring that opened a safe haven within Dong Sheng Yi’s Devouring Chaos Domain.
• Dong Sheng Yi recognized Xiao Yang’s Great Five Elements Technique and grew jealous and enraged.
• Dong Sheng Yi burned his Holy Lord blood essence and unleashed his Great Devouring Art, Great Chaos Art, and Destruction Dao against Xiao Yang.
• Dong Sheng Yi’s assault made the Five-Colored Divine Ring flicker and nearly collapse.
• Xiao Yang announced that he would add two more techniques and invoked the Great Star Technique, calling the stars to obey him.

Xiao Yang summoned the power of the stars to strengthen his Five Elements Divine Ring and overwhelm Dong Sheng Yi. He then revealed a third Great Dao technique, sealed Dong Sheng Yi’s powers, and approached him as the defeated cultivator lay bound in the ruined arena.

• Xiao Yang summoned countless stars, drawing their power into his Five-Colored Divine Ring and combining the Great Star Technique with the Great Five Elements Technique.
• Xiao Yang’s empowered ring repelled Dong Sheng Yi’s Devouring Chaos Domain, sending Dong Sheng Yi crashing into the arena wall and leaving him gravely weakened.
• The spectators and the golden decree were stunned when Dong Sheng Yi recognized that Xiao Yang had mastered two Great Daos.
• Xiao Yang revealed that he had mastered three Great Daos and unleashed the Great Sealing Technique.
• Black chains of law bound Dong Sheng Yi and sealed his devouring power, Chaos Qi, and connection to his Great Dao.
• Xiao Yang walked toward the helpless Dong Sheng Yi through the ruined beast arena.

Xiao Yang defeated Dong Sheng Yi by combining three Great Daos, leaving Dong Sheng Yi unable to accept his loss. When Dong Sheng Yi tried to detonate his Holy Lord Dao Foundation, Xiao Yang stopped him and began devouring the origins of his Great Devouring Art and Great Chaos Art.

• Xiao Yang explained how his three Great Daos outmatched Dong Sheng Yi’s two and declared that Dong Sheng Yi had lost.
• Dong Sheng Yi rejected the defeat and began detonating his Holy Lord Dao Foundation to take Xiao Yang down with him.
• The Immortal Dynasty elders tried to activate the Heavenly Dao Tower’s defenses as the prodigies fled the arena.
• Xiao Yang summoned the Heaven Devouring Empress’s inheritance and seized Dong Sheng Yi by the crown.
• Xiao Yang forcibly extracted Dong Sheng Yi’s Great Dao origins, including his Great Devouring Art and Great Chaos Art.

Xiao Yang defeated Dong Sheng Yi by stripping away his Great Dao Origin, reducing him to a cripple, and won the final battle of the Heaven's Dao Grand Competition. As Xiao Yang left the arena, the Eastern Emperor Great Emperor descended in his true form and overwhelmed everyone present.

• Xiao Yang stripped Dong Sheng Yi of his Great Dao Origin, causing his cultivation to collapse and his body to rapidly age.
• Dong Sheng Yi begged his master for help, but the golden edict remained silent as his cultivation fell to the Immortal Platform Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao Tower declared Xiao Yang the winner of the third trial and final battle.
• Xiao Yang turned to leave the arena after Dong Sheng Yi collapsed, crippled and consumed by despair.
• The Eastern Emperor Great Emperor tore open space and descended above the Heavenly Dao Tower, forcing everyone to their knees.

Eastern Emperor Great Emperor appeared and forced Xiao Yang to endure his overwhelming might, then dismissed his defeated disciple Dong Sheng Yi. After discovering Xiao Yang’s abilities, he offered to make him his successor in exchange for his secrets and threatened to destroy everyone Xiao Yang cared about if he refused.

• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor emerged from the spatial rift, and his pressure drove Xiao Yang to one knee despite Xiao Yang’s efforts to stand.
• Dong Sheng Yi begged his master to avenge him, but Eastern Emperor Great Emperor called him a waste and disowned him.
• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor praised Xiao Yang’s three Great Daos and his method for stripping others of theirs, revealing his interest in those secrets.
• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor offered to make Xiao Yang his personal disciple and successor if he surrendered his secrets.
• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor warned that if Xiao Yang refused, he would kill Xiao Yang and erase his family, friends, and sect.

Xiao Yang refused to become Eastern Emperor Great Emperor’s disciple, then proposed delaying his answer until after entering the Supreme Dao Field for a trial. Eastern Emperor Great Emperor granted him a chance to speak, and Xiao Yang asked for one month to consider the offer.

• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor threatened to erase Xiao Yang if he refused the offer, and the crowd expected Xiao Yang to submit.
• Xiao Yang declared that Eastern Emperor Great Emperor was unworthy of being his master, provoking the Great Emperor to prepare to kill him.
• Xiao Yang stopped Eastern Emperor Great Emperor’s strike and explained that choosing a master was too important to decide hastily, citing his ties to the Supreme Dao Field.
• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor mocked Shouzhuo and the Supreme Dao Field, but Xiao Yang asked to enter the trial first and give his answer after one month.

Xiao Yang bought himself one month before the Eastern Emperor Great Emperor demanded his answer, then received a wish as the Heavenly Dao Tower’s reward. His defiant wish awakened the tower’s complete World Origin, astonishing everyone present.

• The Eastern Emperor Great Emperor granted Xiao Yang one month and allowed all Heavenly Dao Grand Competition participants to cultivate in the Supreme Dao Field during that time.
• The Heavenly Dao Tower declared Xiao Yang the winner of the third trial and offered him a wish as his final reward.
• Xiao Yang wished for the heavens not to obscure his eyes, the earth not to bury his heart, and the Gods and Buddhas of all Heavens to vanish.
• The Heavenly Dao Tower shook and released Nine-Colored Divine Light, which condensed into an orb of complete World Origin.
• The Holy Lords, Quasi Emperors, and Eastern Emperor Great Emperor recognized the orb as a flawless World Origin.

Xiao Yang received the World Origin, a treasure capable of helping him form an inner world and reach the Great Emperor Realm. He swallowed it in the arena and, as its power threatened to destroy him, tried to use his body and techniques to open a world within himself.

• The Heavenly Dao Tower bestowed the World Origin upon Xiao Yang, provoking greed and envy throughout the arena, including in the Eastern Emperor Great Emperor.
• Xiao Yang swallowed the World Origin in front of the crowd and began refining it immediately.
• The Creation Power surged through Xiao Yang's Dantian Sea of Qi, cracking his body and overwhelming the Great Five Elements Technique.
• Xiao Yang stopped trying to suppress the power and called on his Chaos God-Demon Body and Great Star Technique to open a world within himself.

Xiao Yang guided the Creation Power into a Nascent World within his body, breaking through to the peak of the Ninth Heaven of the Venerable Realm. Eastern Emperor Great Emperor opened the Supreme Dao Field for the young prodigies and allowed Xiao Yang to kill Dong Sheng Yi, leaving Xiao Yang to decide whether to act.

• Xiao Yang used his Chaos God-Demon Body and Great Star Technique to form a Nascent World and channel the Creation Power into it.
• The Nascent World’s power pushed Xiao Yang through the seventh and eighth heavens to the peak of the Ninth Heaven of the Venerable Realm.
• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor praised Xiao Yang, opened a gateway to the Supreme Dao Field, and told the young prodigies they had one month there.
• The young prodigies rushed into the Supreme Dao Field, while Xiao Yang stayed behind and watched Dong Sheng Yi lying on the ground.
• Eastern Emperor Great Emperor told Xiao Yang he would not object if Xiao Yang killed Dong Sheng Yi.